Books Discussed on this Blog
Brian Alexander, Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town.
Dean Baker and Jared Bernstein, Getting Back to Full Employment: A Better Bargain for Working People
Thomas Barlow, Between the Eagle and the Dragon
Alan S. Blinder, After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead
Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea
Derek Bok, Higher Education in America
Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
Jeff Faux, The Servant Economy
Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class
Martin Ford, Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
Carl Benedikt Frey, The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
Lawrence B. Glickman, A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society
Alice Goffman, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City
Michael Grunwald, The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era
Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Malcolm Harris, Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
Christopher Hayes, Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Robert B. Horwitz, America’s Right: Anti-Establishment Conservatism from Goldwater to the Tea Party
Philip H. Howard, Concentration and Power in the Food System
Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
George Lakey, Viking Economics
Jaron Lanier, Who Owns the Future?
Amy Larkin, Environmental Debt: The Hidden Costs of the Changing Global Economy
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, How Democracies Die
Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America
Paul Mason, Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future
Branko Milanovic, Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization
Enrico Moretti, The New Geography of Jobs
Helaine Olen, Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry
Shannon K. O’Neil, Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead
Anu Partanen, The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life
Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Benjamin Radcliff, The Political Economy of Human Happiness
Robert Samuels, Why Public Higher Education Should Be Free
Vaclav Smil, Made in the USA: The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing
Ken Stern, With Charity for All: Why Charities Are Failing and a Better Way to Give
Joseph Stiglitz, The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future
U.S. Global Change Research Program, Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States
J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Really enjoying this site. A few books I’ve read recently that might sync well with your interests: Cornered (Barry Lynn), Chain of Title (David Dayen), Takers and Makers (Rana Foroonar), and Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste (Philip Mirowski).